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The rainfall that occurred continuously for some days has taken a toll on various settlements in Kailali district.

A total of 313 households from Bhajani Municipality and 174 from Tikapur Municipality have been displaced after the inundation triggered by the incessant rainfall.

The displaced families have been taking shelters at community buildings, schools, in their relatives' homes and even on streets and open places.

Bhajani Municipality is worst hit by the inundation. In addition to the displacement, a total of 4,848 families have been affected with deluge, according to Bishnu Neupane, chief of the disaster management committee.

"It is very difficult to manage such a huge number of displaced people. Municipality has distributed 1,800 bottles of drinking water. The displaced ones are forced to manage food by bringing it from their houses- whatever is left unwashed," he added.

Neupane further informed that most of the roads are damaged here. Similarly, 75 percent of arable land in Bhajani is deluged.

As the rivers and streams are yet to recede, details on loss of property at home is yet to be collected, according to mayor at Bhajani Municipality, Kewal Chaudhari.

"Bhajani is in utter mess. Not only the people are displaced, but the livestock and crops are damaged. Everything in the houses is drenched," he shared the plight.

Mayor Chaudhari wailed that the municipality alone cannot afford to cope with this disaster, so the federal government must extend immediate assistance.

Those displaced from Bhajani are forced to stay in tents on streets facing multiple risks, a local Krishna Dhamala said, adding that it was raining, while mosquito bites are equally menacing.

Similarly, the flooded Mohana river entered the human settlement at Tikapur Municipality-6, thereby displacing a huge number of people.

Chief of the disaster management, Nirmala Chaudhari informed that the households from Bhagwanpur, Preni, Narayanpur, Milanpur, Bhartapur, Sundarpur and Baghmara were displaced by the Mohana River floods.

Ward 6 is hit hard by the deluge. "It is difficult to reach the inundated site, " she added.

Baghmara is inundated for the first time as a narrow channel was constructed for an irrigation project at ward 4, according to ward chair Lal Bir Chaudhari.

Meanwhile, the disaster management committee has decided to take help from the Rani Jamara Irrigation Project to repair the dams built at various places which were at risk of breach, causing further floods.

A youth was killed in Biratnagar on Monday. Two persons including a 17-year-old boy were injured.

Karan Kamat (21) of Jamtoki, Katahari Rural Municipality-1, Morang was murdered by using a sharp weapon near Nepal Telecom in Biratnagar Metropolitan City-2 last night, SP Nawaraj Karki, Chief at the District Police Office, Morang informed.

People walking on the road found three persons along with Kamat injured and took them to the Koshi Hospital in Biratnagar for treatment at around 10 pm.

Kamat, who was critically injured, breathed his last during the course of treatment.

SP Karki said that there were deep cuts in his chest and other parts of the body. His body has been kept at the Koshi Hospital for postmortem.

Bikram Mandal (22) and Aman Raya (17) of Jamatoki, Katahari-1 were injured in the incident.

Both of them have been taken to the Nobel Hospital after they could not be treated at the Koshi Hospital.

Police said that they are investigating the incident.

Vehicular movement along the Araniko Highway has been obstructed due to a landslide at Pachaskilo of Panchkhal last night.

Landslide is still running and the security personnel are facing difficulties to clear the debris, DSP Raj Kumar Shrestha.

The road has been blocked in a stretch of 150-meter at Panchkhal Municipality-8 since last night, causing complete halt on vehicular movement.

The light vehicles have been suggested for alternative routes.

DSP Shrestha further informed that the heavy equipment as excavators would be used to remove the debris on road from this morning.

The Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has presented five-point suggestions to address the problems of financial cooperatives.

In today's meeting of the Parliamentary Probe Special Committee formed to investigate the misuse of savings of depositors in financial cooperatives, NRB Governor Maha Prasad Adhikari shared that problems seen in the cooperatives sector could be resolved by following the-five-point suggestions.

Governor Adhikari suggested returning the savings of the depositors in three phases. He suggested that savings up to Rs 100,000 of the depositors could be returned in the first phase, while up to Rs 500,000 in second phase and more than Rs 500,000 in the third phase.

The NRB has forwarded a proposal to form a dedicated group to resolve problems as well as to move ahead following the measures adopted while addressing the problems of banks.

He advised that necessary arrangements should be made on the issue of cooperatives that have functioned without restriction of geography.

 Similarly, Chief Executive Officer of Credit Information Bureau, Anil Chandra Adhikari suggested making arrangements for an integrated Information System at the Bureau.  Establishment of a separate information bureau on the issues of insurance and cooperatives was suggested in the meeting.

Alerting about possible problems to be surfaced in other financial institutions like that of cooperatives, President of Nepal Bankers' Association, Sunil KC laid emphasis on the need of resolving the problems soon.

Coordinator of erstwhile cooperative suggestion taskforce, Dr Jay Kanta Raut, explained that problems are increasing in the cooperatives sector for lack of implementation of the suggestions.

Most of the financial cooperatives are operating against cooperatives norms, values and principles are in problems, he added.

Experts laid emphasis on the need of establishing a Credit Recovery Tribunal in the financial cooperatives sector.

On the occasion, Chairperson of the Special Committee Surya Bahadur Thapa said the Committee has not started discussions on whether the government should pay the victim cooperatives' depositors. Discussions are underway keeping it in mind that returning the savings of depositors was the main responsibility of cooperatives. 

Officers who had already worked as registrar of the Cooperative Department after 2048 BS have been invited for tomorrow's meeting.    Similarly, discussions would be held with the financial cooperatives' victims in other meetings.

An infant died after a flood gushed into a house in Kanchanpur on Sunday night.

The District Police Office, Kanchanpur identified the deceased as seven-months-old Sonu Dhanuk of Pahariya of Krishnapur Municipality-1.

The child fell from the bed on a water-logged floor and died.

Similarly, Dambar Chaudhary (23) of Vaivah of Beldandi Rural Municipality-3 has gone missing in a flooded local river, SP Chakra Raj Joshi said. Police have intensified search operations for him with the help of the locals.

As of today, 1,700 houses in Kanchanpur have been inundated due to continuous rain over the past two days. The affected areas include Bhimdatta, Bedkot, Dodhara Chandani, and Punarbas Municipalities, as well as Beldandi Rural Municipality. All nine local levels in the district have been affected by the flooding. 

On Sunday night, Nepal Police, Armed Police Force, and Nepal Army personnel successfully evacuated 39 people to safety. Security personnel have been actively deployed in the affected areas. As of now, a total of 1,738 individuals have been rescued and relocated to safer areas.  

Vehicular movement along the East-West Highway has been obstructed as the flood damaged a culvert at Suda Chowk of the Bhansi-Daiji section.

The floods from the Mahakali and Jodbudha rivers have entered the settlement at Dodhara-Chandani Municipality-10. Those displaced from their homes due to the disaster have been taking refuge at ward offices, schools, and relatives. 

All sluice gates at the Sharada barrage have been opened due to rising water levels in the Mahakali river.

On Sunday night, the river's flow exceeded 400,000(cusecs, but has since decreased to 288,000 cusecs.

All 24 sluice gates towards Nepal's territory along the Sharada Barrage in Banbasa have been opened.

Vehicles have been prohibited from crossing the Sharada barrage bridge for the past three days.

The National Human Rights Commission said that transitional justice issues should be resolved promptly by making them victim-friendly.

Holding a discussion with concerned stakeholders, NHRC Chairman Tap Bahadur Magar said that the transitional justice issues should be resolved at the earliest on the basis of the suggestions given by the Commission.

He opined that the Bill on Transitional Justice has been suggested frequently to be amended in accordance with international principles, Supreme Court orders and recommendations of the Commission.

Magar further said that the Commission has also been drawing the attention of the government not to grant amnesty in the cases of disappearances, extrajudicial killings, kidnappings, torture, rape, and sexual violence.

He asserted that it would be difficult to resolve the transitional justice issues without the joint efforts of the people, who participated in the war, victims, and the government among others.

The Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) plunged by 4. 62 points to close at 2,136.35 points on Wednesday.

Similarly, the sensitive index dropped by 0. 76 points to close at 377. 45 points.

A total of 10,475,181-unit shares of 324 companies were traded for Rs 4. 56 billion.

Meanwhile, Samaj Laghubittya Bittiya Sanstha Limited (SAMAJ) was the top gainer today with its price surging by 9. 68 percent.

Likewise, Mailung Khola Jal Vidhyut Company Limited (MKJC) was the top loser with its price dropped by 8. 39 percent.

At the end of the day, the total market capitalization stood at Rs 3. 38 trillion.

Vajra Publications, a Kathmandu-based top publishing house, has published the English version of Muluki Ain 1854, the law code with constitutional features drafted at the initiative of Prime Minister Janga Bahadur Rana—is a fundamental legal text from modern Nepal. The Muluki Ain was jointly translated by Rajan Khatiwada, Simon Cublic and Axel Michaels.

Patrick Olivelle, Professor Emeritus, University of Texas at Austan says: “The publication, a complete translation of the Nepali code, the Muluki AIn, is indeed a milestone in modern scholarship into traditional South Asian laws, especially the law encoded in the Sanskrit Dharmsastras.”  

According to him, there has been a long-standing debate whether the laws spelled out in these ancient codes were purely theoretical constructs that constituted the law of the land and actually applied in the courts of law.

The Muluki Ain of 1854—the law code with constitutional features drafted at the initiative of Prime Minister Janga Bahadur Rana—is the foundational legal text for modern Nepal. It covers almost every aspect of public, criminal, private and religious law, ranging from the organization of the state and courts to murder and other delicts, the workings of the caste system and the joint family, matters of purity and penance, customary law, widow-burning and witchcraft. As such, the Muluki Ain is a unique source not only for the political, social and economic life of 19th-century Nepal, but also for the place of traditional Hindu jurisprudence in South Asian legal cultures.